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Looking Forward to 2016: A Supply Chain Planning Outlook
Solvoyo founder and CEO Koray Dogan’s late-2015 letter on what would shape supply chain planning in 2016: executable plans, lower-carbon planning, cloud adoption and…
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Low-Carbon Supply Chain Planning: Measure, Price and Cut CO2
How to put CO2 into operational and tactical supply chain planning: measuring transport, warehouse and production emissions, carbon as a cost or a constraint,…
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Part I – Paris 2015: Climate Change and Supply Chain Planning
Written days after the 2015 Paris Agreement, Omer Bakkalbasi’s case for why supply chain managers should measure, model and cut their CO2, with a…
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3PL Capacity Planning: Shared Warehouses, Fleets and Clients
How a 3PL plans warehouse space, labor, docks and fleet for many clients at once: correcting client forecasts, pooling peaks, planning capacity layers, pricing…
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Post-Merger Supply Chain Integration: Network, SKUs and Systems
How to integrate two supply chains after a merger: mapping network overlap, rationalizing SKUs and suppliers, consolidating planning systems, the first 100 days, and…
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ABC XYZ Inventory Segmentation: Policies That Fit Each Item
How ABC XYZ inventory segmentation classifies items by value and demand variability, how to set service levels and review cycles for each of the…
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Omnichannel Demand Forecasting: Channels, Levels and Returns
How to forecast demand across stores, online and click and collect: why a total forecast falls short, cannibalization between channels, returns, which level to…
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Prescriptive Analytics in Supply Chain: From Forecast to Decision
What prescriptive analytics in supply chain is, how it differs from descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics, why optimization over real constraints makes it prescriptive,…
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Exception-Based Planning: How Planners Work the Queue
How exception-based planning works: planners review only the lines that break a rule. How to set thresholds and alerts, what an actionable exception contains,…
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Supply Chain Planning Proof of Concept: Scope, Metrics, Traps
How to set up a supply chain planning proof of concept on your own data: what it should prove, scope, data, success metrics including…
